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Phil Zimmermann Quotes

born 1954

Philip R. "Phil" Zimmermann Jr. (born February 12, 1954) is the creator of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), the most widely used email encryption software in the world.

Also known as: Philip Zimmermann, Zimmermann, Philip

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If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy.

At no time in the past century has public distrust of the government been so broadly distributed across the political spectrum, as it is today.

The natural flow of technology tends to move in the direction of making surveillance easier.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Phil Zimmermann (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.